Trailblazer's Sharepoint Blog : May 2009 - Posts

May 2009 - Posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:47 AM

Virtual Earth in SharePoint

I recently was working on a very cool requirement where customer wanted to implement virtual earth pins view in a SharePoint web part. On working for a long time using javascripts and XSL I was finally able to crack the solution. So, here are some instructions

Posted by varunmalhotra | 1 Comments

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:38 AM

Reusing SPSchedulePicker Control

SchedulePicker Class (in the Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls namespace) is very handy when it comes to creating a SPSchedule . Particularly when creating application pages that handle the scheduling of custom timer jobs. So instead of creating your own

Posted by varunmalhotra | 1 Comments

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:20 AM

How to - Increase timeout value of a SharePoint workflow

I was recently working on an issue where customer had a workflow which used to fail and error out after the workflow would execute for some tasks. On deeper analysis I found that the workflow was creating 5000 tasks and it is then when the workflow errored

Posted by varunmalhotra | 1 Comments

Monday, May 25, 2009 11:58 PM

Modify a date-time value field in Event Handlers – Through AfterProperties

Recently I had a requirement from my customer where it was required to update a date time field through the event handlers and that had to be done in the asynchronous events. Well you may think that this is very simple and setting it with specific date

Posted by varunmalhotra | 1 Comments

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:00 PM

Application Definition Designer – New Name for BDC Editor Tool

I recently downloaded the new SharePoint SDK – 1.5 (April 2009 version) and found that the BDC editor tool was renamed to Application Definition Designer Tool. After installing i explored the various options and found no change in the functionality. So

Posted by varunmalhotra | 1 Comments